Recently the meaning and importance of urban tourism is highly evaluated all over the world. City is not only the role of national and local gateway but also becomes good tour resorts where many people come to visit. However, the upbringing of tour in...
Recently the meaning and importance of urban tourism is highly evaluated all over the world. City is not only the role of national and local gateway but also becomes good tour resorts where many people come to visit. However, the upbringing of tour industry or resource development for each city still couldn't develop tourism well because of lack of understanding for the importance of urban tourism development, insufficient urban tourism facilities and tour activities.
Therefore, this article's major objective is that presents political direction for tour promotion in Ansan by that systemizes the theory of urban tourism and touristic bulid-up, considers the condition of urban tourism promotion by tourism potential and analysis for actual condition in Ansan as a study object, analyzes the correlation between the subject for development of urban tourism and goal of urban tourism development, approaches, and urban tourism promotion.
To accomplish these study objectives, I complemented theoretical study along with practical study. The theoretical study was performed with theoretical verification related to urban tourism and tour promotion. In the practical study was performed with the use of questionnaire method based on the theoretical study and the objects are confined to the specialists of tour industry, learned circles of tourism, tour association and officials in charge of tourism in Ansan. The research term was from 11. Sep. 2006 to 25. Sep. 2006, and the data was analyzed by SPSS package.
The study results from the above express that the subjects and the space of urban tourism in Ansan are related with the goal and approaches of urban tourism development and tourism promotion, simultaneously, and suggest the direction of tourism promotion through the subjects and space of urban tourism. The policies of Ansan for urban tourism promotion are as following:
Firstly, development of the routes through differentiated tour resort development would be necessary capable of generating tourism demands of connecting tour resorts and sojourner.
Secondly, tourism promotion has to be sought by the coordination between local government, private corporate, and urban citizens.
Thirdly, guides from the gateway would be accomplished for the tourists coming to tour resorts in Ansan.
Fourthly, the plans for making motives calling visitors through tour resort with strengthening the urban tourism marketing and for making new tour image meeting with the image of the whole city with tourism events and CI (corporate identity) would be necessary.
Fifthly, it is necessary that the role of coordinator of neighboring local governments and the central government, and the improvement of mutual-assistance system in tour administration in tourism policy.
Sixthly, tour development by the establishment of a department wholly taking charge of tourism and the integrated administration for management are needed to urban tourism promotion. And the specialization of people in the department should be accomplished.
Seventhly, more desirable and effective political alternative plan should be prepared examining the influential relations with the tour development goal and approaches of Ansan, promotion factors for the urban tourism as tour items, and the subjects and space of urban tourism development.
This article has the meaning that it presented the "the direction of urban tourism promotion" analyzing the factors in influential relations according to the subjects and space of the urban tourism, and showed the promotion direction in regard to subjects and space with the case study of medium sized city, Ansan where had insufficient study. But it seemed that the respondents participating in practical analysis could not verity perfectly a population. Also, it possessed the limitation of static analysis that could not remove the possibility of thought change of the respondents because the sampling was conducted in short- term. Therefore, it seems that the study by dynamic analysis along with comparison, research, and analysis would enlarge the study period.